Under Zhuge Xuan's arrangement, the elder Huangmenting temporarily lived in the east of the city.
The shipping trade between Jiangdong and Jingzhou was extremely frequent. In history, many people would travel between the two places by ship, and wars between the two places were often fought on the Yangtze River.
However, after all, Huangmenting has more than a thousand people and a lot of supplies. It is not easy to gather so many ships in a short time.
What's more, Zhuge Xuan has just become the governor of Yuzhang and has not yet fully grasped the power of the entire county.
So according to his idea, he would help introduce him to find a big merchant who wanted to transport goods to Jingzhou, and Huangmenting would pay for the shipping and entrust the merchant to send them there.
So in the next few days, Deng Hong and Shen Chen would often go to the prefect's mansion. Deng Hong wanted to meet with those merchants to talk about prices and intentions for cooperation.
Shen Chen went to the backyard. This was also the second time he saw Zhuge Liang. At that time, Zhuge Liang was reading a book on the porch of the backyard. It was approaching late autumn in September, and the autumn wind was blowing. He was wearing a long robe. He was thirteen years old, rich and handsome, as if he was banished. Fairy.
The servant who took Shen Chen there introduced him to Zhuge Liang: "Young Master, this is the young master from a friend's house. The master said that you are about the same age and hopes that you can become friends and have another playmate." ."
Zhuge Liang frowned slightly, but he still stood up and saluted Shen Chen seriously: "I am Zhuge Liang."
"Chen Chen."
Shen Chen returned the greeting and said, "Brother Zhuge, we have met before."
"oh?"
After the ceremony, Zhuge Liang said in surprise: "Have you seen it before?"
"That day at Niqiu Mountain, do you remember?"
Shen Chen smiled.
"Nichushan?"
Zhuge Liang thought for a while, his pupils dilated slightly: "I remember, you were riding on horseback."
"Yes."
"What a coincidence. Sit down."
"Thank you, brother Zhuge."
Shen Chen walked over and knelt down on the same table as Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang actually didn't like children from his relatives very much. He was precocious and couldn't play with those naive children.
But Shen Chen, at least judging from his behavior, was polite and not like a naughty and naughty child.
After the two sat down, Shen Chen noticed that there was a sentence engraved on the bamboo slip in Zhuge Liang's hand, called "Ji Zi Zhi Ming Yi Li Zhen", which was from the Book of Changes.
"Brother, are you reading the Book of Changes?"
"Um."
Zhuge Liang nodded, put down the bamboo slips in his hand and said, "There are many things I don't understand."
Shen Chen wondered: "Hasn't Jizi's Ming Yi Li Zhen been clearly explained by every school? Except for Zhao Bin's theory, everyone thinks it is the wisdom of hidden clumsiness."
"It's not this sentence, it's this sentence: "Repent for loss and gain, but don't pity for good luck." I'm thinking that this sentence should be divided into regret for loss, loss and gain, don't be pity for good luck, no disadvantage. Or should I regret loss and gain? , don’t worry about the good fortune but no disadvantages? Or regret the loss and don’t worry about the gains, because the good fortune will not be disadvantageous.”
Zhuge Liang pointed to another sentence on the bamboo slip and said.
Shen Chen has read the "Zhouyi", which is part of the "Book of Changes". The Han Dynasty version of the "Book of Changes" has more than 100,000 words, because the "Lianshan Yi" and "Guizang Yi" at that time had not been lost. , so it is a very important Confucian classic.
However, the complete version of the "Book of Changes" has too much content and is not easy to carry, while the "Book of Changes" only has 5,000 words, which is a very small number of words. It can be written in about three volumes of bamboo slips.
Therefore, when Deng fled Nanyang, he took with him a relatively small number of classics.
Books like "Book of Rites" and "Zuo Zhuan" cost 98,000 yuan each. If written on bamboo slips, they would have dozens or hundreds of volumes, not counting many scriptures with annotations. It is really not easy to carry them on a horse-drawn carriage. It's convenient, so I have to give up.
At present, Shen Chen has not read many books, only "The Book of Changes", "The Analects of Confucius", "The Classic of Filial Piety" and a small part of "Shangshu", "Book of Rites", etc. Not only do they not have commentaries by great Confucians, but most of them are broken.
However, after enduring the baptismal impact of the information age in later generations, Shen Chen also has deeper thoughts on the understanding and research of these books, and can often quickly find the key points and summaries.
He looked at Zhuge Liang pointing at this passage, smiled and said: "I don't know what brother thinks, but I think it should be regret for the loss, don't be sorry for the loss, and go to the good luck, there will be no disadvantages."
"oh?"
Zhuge Liang asked: "Why do you make this explanation?"
Shen Chen shook his head and said: "This is just my personal opinion. The "Book of Changes" is essentially a book that the predecessors summarized the laws of all things. How to interpret a paragraph should not depend on what the predecessors thought, but on what the predecessors thought. What do you think?"
"What do you think?"
"That's right, brother, let's read the first sentence first. Regret for loss and loss. Don't regret it. Good luck and no disadvantage. How should we explain it?"
"There should be no regrets. There are no gains or losses. Don't worry. There will be no disadvantages if you go to the auspicious place."
"If you explain it like this when fortune telling, isn't it just encouragement? But if it is replaced by regret for loss and gain, don't worry about the loss of good luck, what will be disadvantageous?"
"Regret your own gains and losses, and worry about the unlucky things ahead."
"Look, different understandings of a sentence result in differences in direction. Some people think of delicious fish meat when they see fish, but when Zhuangzi sees fish, he knows the joy of fish. Isn't this a different way of looking at things? "
"It seems to be the truth, but I still don't quite understand it. Can you explain it in detail?"
"For example, if a person wants to go on a far journey, he must first do a divination and get the divination. Then whether he should go out depends on his own wishes. If he goes out to see his beloved, the explanation he sees should be Don't worry about gains and losses, go out bravely, and you will be unfavorable. If he is forcibly recruited by the princes to fight and does not want to go out, then what he sees is disadvantage. This is the interpretation of the hexagram."
“Does good or bad luck ultimately depend on one’s own wishes?”
Zhuge Liang lowered his head and couldn't help but think of the tragic scene he saw when passing by Xuzhou more than three months ago.
If one day when he grows up, someone hopes that he can serve as a helper and fight against the butcher who massacred the entire Xiapi. If he calculates this hexagram by himself, will he see good or bad luck?
Don't think about it, it must be serious.
After all, that man was already more ferocious than Bai Qi. Bai Qi only killed 400,000 surrendered soldiers, but that man did not even spare the common people, old and young, and his humanity had been destroyed to the extreme.
Own.
If such a situation does occur one day, will you have the courage to move forward bravely without regrets or worrying about gains and losses?
Shen Chen said softly: "Yes, "The Book of Changes" tells us that people should obey nature, but sometimes, even if they know that they cannot do something, they still have to go against it, maybe it is against God's will. But as I did The sentence is the same as "Repent of death, don't be sorry for gains and losses, go to good luck, no disadvantages." Only if you don't regret and don't care about gains and losses, can you move forward without any regrets. Even if you die, you will have no regrets."
"You know you can't do something but you do it."
The young Zhuge Liang read this sentence carefully. I don't know why, this sentence is as comforting as the dew in summer and the heater in winter.
He smiled, bowed his hands to Shen Chen earnestly and said, "My dear brother's words made me enlightened. Perhaps there are too many unreasonable things in this world, but because the enemy is so powerful that it makes the world fearful, this is why we need to Brave people, let them go against the will of heaven."
"I believe that my brother is a man of great benevolence, courage and wisdom."
Shen Chen also laughed: "I am known as a child prodigy in my hometown. I always have my own insights when I read books, but when I tell others, they don't understand. Only when I am with my brother, I feel comfortable."
The two looked at each other and laughed.
Although both of them are children, their minds are no different from those of adults. Sometimes, a word, a look, or a movement can tell what each other wants. This is not only a tacit understanding, but also because both people have a feeling. ——At this lonely age, I found another friend with whom I can have a heart-to-heart relationship.
Geniuses are lonely because it is difficult for ordinary people to understand. Just like when Shen Chen was in his hometown, many words and meanings were not understood by the elders in his hometown.
Future generations may not quite understand why.
But we need to know that people in later generations will be born in a world with extremely advanced information.
A "Zuo Zhuan" has 190,000 words. If you search it on the Internet, you will find translations, annotations, and explanations. It is clear, simple, and easy to understand. At most, it takes only a few fingers.
And what about in the Han Dynasty?
There are more than 1,000 people living in Huangmenting, and the literacy rate may not exceed 1%.
They don't know why it rains, they don't know why the sun and moon rise in the east and set in the west, they don't know where they are or where they grew up, and they don't have a clear idea of the geographical location of the Han Dynasty.
Many people think that the place where they live and the Thirteen States of Han Dynasty they heard from others are the whole world in their eyes.
Even those wealthy families only had historical books such as "Zuo Zhuan" and "Spring and Autumn Annals" and philosophies about how to live in the world, such as "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius".
When it comes to the accumulation of knowledge and the way of interpretation, there is no comparison between the people of the Han Dynasty and those of later generations.
What's more important is that the way to obtain knowledge at that time was too difficult.
Bamboo slips are difficult to preserve, and books are easy to lose. There are no pinyin letters, no punctuation, and no annotations. Even if there are bamboo slips, it is almost impossible to learn without the guidance of teachers and the help of predecessors.
And even if there are books to read and teachers to teach, sometimes a sentence in the book will have two different meanings from the original explanation due to different sentence fragments.
For those obscure ancient classics, Confucian scholars at that time could only explore the meaning word for word, so as to self-segment and understand themselves, and then annotated them into their own words, which gradually became a school.
Once two people understand a certain sentence differently, it may lead to academic disputes.
Just like how later generations interpret "Dream of Red Mansions", countless red scholars have their own ideas and understandings. They argue and argue endlessly on the Internet, and in the end no one can convince anyone of the same truth.
So starting from the Western Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars have been commenting on and writing biographies of Confucian classics. Following this trend, such books as "Ouyang Shangshu", "Fu Sheng Shangshu", "Shi Shi Yi", "Meng Shi Yi", "Fei Shi Yi" and "Mao Shi Yi" were born. Poetry", "Lu Poetry", "Qi Poetry" and more than a hundred schools of thought.
Even "Zuo Zhuan", "Gu Liang Zhuan" and "Gongyang Zhuan" are actually biographical annotations for the book "Spring and Autumn", that is, they explain the meaning of the content written in the book "Spring and Autumn".
It can be said that any high school student in later generations, as long as you understand high school mathematics, you will be a famous Han Algebra mathematician back in the Han Dynasty!
If you are lucky enough to bring a laptop with you when you travel, which contains translations, annotations, and explanations of all Confucian classics, then congratulations, you are a more powerful Confucian scholar than the great Confucian Zheng Xuan of the time. As long as your reputation spreads, the entire All the Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty had to come to you to study under you.
So to a certain extent, there is a huge generation gap between ordinary people and Shen Chen. They have too little knowledge. For time travelers like Shen Chen, sometimes the content and meaning of a sentence cannot be understood at all, so It becomes very boring.
And now the appearance of Zhuge Liang has brought a lot of interest to Shen Chen, because he can understand the meaning of what Shen Chen said. Even if he doesn't understand it at first, he will understand it after a little click.
A genius will be lonely, and the world will not understand it. But when two geniuses are together, that is interesting.